Calculating Ethics in the Fourteenth Century

Edit Anna Lukács, Ph.D. (2008), is Academy Scientist at the Institute for Medieval Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Her most recent book is titled Immovable Truth. Divine Knowledge and the Bible at the University of Vienna (1384-1419) (Brill, 2024). Monika Michałowska, Ph.D. (2007), is Professor at the Medical University of Łódź. Her research focuses on late medieval ethics and theology. She has critically edited Richard Kilvington’s Quaestiones super libros Ethicorum and Quaestiones super libros Sententiarum (Brill, 2016, 2021, 2023).

Preface

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors



1 Calculatory Ethics: Methods, Arguments, and Cases. Introduction

 Monika Michałowska and Edit A. Lukács



2 Walter Burley on Moral Change

 Marek Gensler



3 Richard FitzRalph on Contradictory Appetites (Appetitus Contrarii): An Unfinished Debate

 Michael W. Dunne



4 At the Intersections of Physics and Ethics: Richard Kilvington on Ethical Change

 Monika Michałowska



5 How Many Actions Does One Need to Generate a Moral Virtue? From the First Lecturae on the Nicomachean Ethics to John Buridan’s Quaestiones

 Valeria Buffon



6 Martyrs Who Do Not Die: Robert Halifax on Supererogation

 Edit A. Lukács



7 Does Robert Holcot’s Theory of Faith Transmission Prefigure Solomon Asch’s Conformity Experiment?

 Pascale Bermon



8 Ethical Implications of a Metaphysical Structure: Peter Ceffons and John Ripa

 Andrea Nannini



9 The Measurement of Psychological Quality in the Fourteenth Century and Today

 Simon Kemp



Index of Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Names

Index of Things